Michael Conley
@mconley.bsky.social
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Peggy Poole Winner 2022 | Prose: Flare and Falter, Splice | Poetry: These Are Not My Dreams, Nine Pens https://mickconley.substack.com/
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mconley.bsky.social
This nice thing arrived through my door today from @northerngravy.bsky.social - very happy to have some poems in here alongside some familiar names. You can get it here: northerngravy.com/product/poet...
mconley.bsky.social
It's not a war, it hasn't ended and splitting it into 'this instance' so that you can say it was started by Hamas is ahistorical and ignorant. People in the UK don't protest against Hamas because the UK government is not funding or supporting Hamas. So, again, you're wrong.
mconley.bsky.social
A ceasefire is, by definition, not an 'end to war'. I'm any case, this isn't a war, it's a genocide. Israel killed 5 Palestinians *this morning* despite the so-called ceasefire. Netenyahu and Trump have both been clear and open about their desire to raze Gaza after this. Dont fall for the propaganda
mconley.bsky.social
Great news, by the way I have a beautiful bridge to sell you
mconley.bsky.social
The best Bronte is Anne and it's not close
rachelfeder.bsky.social
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
mconley.bsky.social
I'm ok at it, but at least unlike you I'm not wrong x
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letsgomathias.bsky.social
“The truth is that antifa groups have been responsible for some of the most prescient & impactful organizing countering the far-right during the last decade”

Amazing corrective to liberal punditry abt antifa from Matthew Whitley (& basically the thesis of my book) theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...
What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa
Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.
theintercept.com
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nkalamb.bsky.social
Shocked to learn that the world’s preeminent transphobe is also a genocide apologist.
JK Rowling:

"Pro-Palestinian demonstrators couldn’t give it a rest – not even for 24 hours. They were chanting all the old slogans and ducking all the hard questions. ‘Globalise the intifada,’ they cried – does that mean killing Jews in Manchester?" ✍️@NickCohen4
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kieranhurley.bsky.social
As well as a terrifying extension of repressive state power, it's striking how intellectually dead this is. "You can have freedoms, but only when and if we say so." Ludicrous. We live in an era as stupid as it is evil, governed by moral and intellectual minnows as vapid as they are depraved.
daimoon.bsky.social
just because you have a freedom "doesn't mean you have to use it at every moment of every day"

Just roll that sentence around your mental palate and taste the underlying logic
Laura Kuenssberg asks if it is a "dark step" to limit the fundamental right to protest?
Mahmood answers that just because you have a freedom "doesn't mean you have to use it at every moment of every day".
Under her new plans people will still have the right to protest, Mahmood adds.
mconley.bsky.social
Good job your respect holds no currency then, knobhead
mconley.bsky.social
You would get put on your arse the greatest day you ever lived, you coward. Keep hiding
mconley.bsky.social
Don't be so stupid Robert
mconley.bsky.social
So, just vibes then? Sit down and shut up.
mconley.bsky.social
Ah, the magical left, who are both clueless and irrelevant morons mostly to be ignored, and also so powerful that they decide who the government is. Thoughts and prayers for your chronic case of brainworms, lib, it must be getting extremely wriggly in there by now
mconley.bsky.social
"Why won't these people who I loudly and constantly describe as painfully dumb join a coalition with me?"
mconley.bsky.social
Prioritizing defeating the right is exactly why people won't vote for Labour this time. You, and they, can keep pretending that the colour of the rosette is the only qualifier, but at some point we're all going to need to face up to it
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j-tkelly.bsky.social
This is the Brigit Pegeen Kelly poem that I love.
poets.org/poem/leaving
The Leaving
Brigit Pegeen Kelly

My father said I could not do it,
but all night I picked the peaches.
The orchard was still, the canals ran steadily.
I was a girl then, my chest its own walled garden.
How many ladders to gather an orchard?
I had only one and a long patience with lit hands
and the looking of the stars which moved right through me
the way the water moved through the canals with a voice
that seemed to speak of this moonless gathering
and those who had gathered before me.
I put the peaches in the pond’s cold water,
all night up the ladder and down, all night my hands
twisting fruit as if I were entering a thousand doors,
all night my back a straight road to the sky.
And then out of its own goodness, out
of the far fields of the stars, the morning came,
and inside me was the stillness a bell possesses
just after it has been rung, before the metal
begins to long again for the clapper’s stroke.
The light came over the orchard.
The canals were silver and then were not.
and the pond was—I could see as I laid
the last peach in the water—full of fish and eyes.
mconley.bsky.social
Have you ever been on any of the marches? You're talking out of your fucking arse
mconley.bsky.social
To be fair, Lord Walney has a lot of useful things to say about the type of text that is/isn't acceptable to have on your placards at a demonstration. For more information, simply Google "Lord Walney inappropriate texts"
mconley.bsky.social
Yeah, great thing to joke about, definitely one of the Good Guys